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    strange, but the narrator felt he could escape. He preferred American detective stories. One day, Father Butler was listening to pages from a Roman History book, and Leo was discovered with an Indian book. Father Butler is confused, and everyone acts innocent. Father Butler tells Leo he is never to find Indian books at college again. He believes that the author wrote Indian books in order to pay for drinks. If the boys were National School boys, Father Butler would understand this behavior. The narrator

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    In the book, The Crucible John Proctor is a married man with children.He is an American Romantic Hero.John is a person that loves natures and avoids town life, he is innocent and pure of purpose, and he possesses youthful qualities. John Proctor is a man that absolutely loves nature and avoids town life.The reason he loves nature is because he works everyday on his crops.For example, he does not go to church and rarely goes out and avoids the town life.He does not go to church; he also does not

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    corners. They face hardships, difficult decisions and choices that had to be made. Paul and his comrades are young innocents stepping into the heart of the war, but start to lose their innocence because of violence, carnage, and loss of life. Paul and his comrades, into the early stages of war, have their innocence. The war has not taken the full effect on Paul

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    who they are and how they act and gender roles as not being a stereotype. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both exhibit traits that are not the way males and females are “supposed” to act. Shakespeare proved that it is not true females are delicate and innocent and that males kill easily and without much considering in the play of Macbeth. Women were thought as lesser beings at the time of Shakespeare. Shakespeare still represented

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    initiation, of a boy’s quest for the ideal. The quest ends in failure but results in an inner awareness and a first step into manhood. On another level the story consists of a grown man's remembered experience, for the story is told in retrospect by a man who looks back to a particular moment of intense meaning and insight. As such, the boy's experience is not restricted to youth's encounter with first love. Rather, it is a portrayal of a continuing problem all through life: the incompatibility of the

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    Watson and the Coen Brothers film No Country for Old Men both have characters who are sheriffs that are confronted with murder. Wes Hayden, the sheriff in Montana 1948, faces the fact that his brother, Frank, murders an innocent Indian woman. Unlike his brother, Wes is a worn down rustic man who is not fond of his job as sheriff of Mercer County, Montana. Ed Tom Bell, the sheriff in No Country for Old Men, is challenged with the task of hunting down a murderer, who is searching for money that was stolen

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    screams words I cannot understand, and I’m somehow tempted to pull the trigger. The longer I look at him the more surprisingly aggravated I become. Of course it was the black guy, why wouldn’t it be the black guy. I’m out here pulling a Taser on an innocent man, perhaps scaring him to death while the real suspect is across the street. My trigger finger becomes heavy. He screams inaudibly again. “Shut up damn it, or so help me God, I will shoot right through you”, I threaten. He seems frightened and suddenly

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    In The story a good man is hard to find, a southern family takes a vacation trip to Florida. As the story progress the female characters are seen as the naïve and the weaker sex. While men are given powerful personalities and important roles. On the family’s journey they a take a turn down a dirty road which cause them to meet in an accident and they are found by the misfit and his henchmen’s. The misfit and his crew killed the entire family they spared no one, but an innocent cat. Before being killed

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    We could assume that every wolf was once a man. At the beginning Carter explains how wolves are “carnivore incarnate and he’s cunning and ferocious”, but yet she also explains how “melancholy” a wolf can be because “the beasts would love to be less beastly if only they knew how” (110, 112).

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    demonstrates times when others have been discriminated against unfairly. A reporter was working on a murder case, when police mistook him for the murderer, and dragged him from his car at gunpoint. Only having his press credentials as evidence that he was innocent (Staples, 185). He isn't only giving valuable personal evidence of how he has faced unfair racism, but he also describes the lives of other black men. He does not convey events of him being judged

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